Hi Thane

I am new to this site also and I’m from Auckland and have posted photos from Wings over Wairarapa

The photo of the P-51 used as the signature photo in all of their advertising was supplied be me and it still gives me a buzz the see it on their website

Enjoyed seeing you photos and concur with the others about the prop blur. to get nice consistent prop blurr you often ahieve to sacrifice a bit of sharpness given the settings that you are using …. the Mosquito was very difficult to achieve nice prop blurr with owing to the very low revs that the Merlins are pulling

I photograph mostly on total manual settings and sometimes on shutter priority

I am a member of Warbirds and will post a few photos from the open days we have had there

Look forward to seeing more of your work

Ralph

Hiya Ralph,

Thanks for the comments mate. Something I have to practice with, that prop blur.

Don’t you guys have an International Airshow up your way soon? Looking forward to your images if you are going.

Thane

Some reworked images.

I was impressed with Daniels images and revisited my originals and did some judicious editting to better represent the aircraft on display. Below a set of eight.

P1198230_01 by Suburban Guerrilla, on Flickr

Vampire in RNZAF livery

P1198197 by Suburban Guerrilla, on Flickr

Mosquito in flight.

P1198171 by Suburban Guerrilla, on Flickr

Mosquito, two Vampires and a Venom in formation over the airfield.

P1198066 by Suburban Guerrilla, on Flickr

Not sure what this is, thought maybe Mustang but it doesn’t look right??

P1198054 by Suburban Guerrilla, on Flickr

Also not sure what this is, just know the grass was tinder dry and a definite fire hazard. Luckily none that day.

P1198046 by Suburban Guerrilla, on Flickr

Feed me!!

P1198039 by Suburban Guerrilla, on Flickr

One of the RNZAF’s new NH 90s (I think??) replacing the 50 year old Iriquois Fleet.

Thank you Daniel.

Thanks for all that mate all very good advice. I should have broadened my explanations of how and why I shot the way I did. Firstly I posted before the Airshow on DPR Review asking for advice on the best way to shoot my first aircraft show and largely received the same advice you posted here, so in essence I knew what I had to do. However things never go right on the day. Firstly I left my reading glasses in the car (parked 1 and 1/2 miles away) so I couldn’t read the LCD properly. I did indeed select Shutter Priority for the first few shots of Prop aircraft in the air (at 1/125) but all the first few shots were badly overexposed so I kept (blindly) playing with the settings and lucked out continuously, so being a predominantly Manual shooter I reverted to tried and true as I was missing some aircraft in the air and I didn’t want to waste any further opportunities. Lesson learned.

As for shooting at 1/1250 that was reading issues, thought it was 1/125, but 1/640 is easier to explain. The sweet spot for the 70-300 is 1/640 so that’s what I predominantly used. But I am now wiser and more prepared to go practice at the local aerodromes with Shutter Priority and play with settings until I get what my camera gives me best. PLUS I now have new glasses that I wear all the time so no further LCD issues.

Thanks again and glad you enjoyed the images. I was hoping by posting them all something new or different made it’s presence felt and gave novelty to my set.

Thane

Great Pics… You seem to have a lot of good , interesting stuff over in NZ.

Thanks for sharing ……..:D

Yeah thanks for your reply. I too was amazed at what was on offer and that was just the “older” aircraft.

Thane